To one and all, especially katy and david in glasgow :) Last night, something occurred which made me ponder whether I actually fit a stereotype. Firstly, I didn’t even realise that people thought such things, which will become apparent, about belle & sebastian fans. My friend donna, (no names have been changed), and I, (not as in ‘withnail…’), were listening to arab strap because I was trying to convince her that she could not just dismiss b&s because she’d never heard of them, and therefore they must be crap. (donna by the way, is into techno techno stuff of which I’m told ‘electronica’ is in no way related). Well, halfway through chickfactor donna informed me that a mutual friend of ours (who perhaps, it IS best remains unnamed), stated the so-called fact that once people become b&s fans they turn into complete obsessives. Well, I sat stunned for a while, trying not to show it, as I stacked all my cds into a neat pile on the table. So, is it true? I don’t know. Just because all my cds are alphabetised, my socks put in pairs next to each other as they dry on the radiator and the fact that the ends of my scarves have to hang the same length when I wear them doesn’t mean I’m obsessive does it? I mean, I’ve always hung my trousers, shirts, tops and duffel coats together in those respective groups in my wardrobe for as long as I can remember and my books have always been placed in subject order on my shelves. So, you can see, the more I thought about it, the more I was concerned as to whether or not there was any correlation. But then, as I set of to get the hoover for its weekly spin in my room (I live in halls so locating it can often be a problem) I realised that I didn’t actually care. Obsessive or no obsessive I was me last night and am still me today and that was/is not going to change, not in any grate hurry anyway. ;) love and kisses mitten-wearing h xx _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+